Painted Calipers

[Halon]

I'm guessing I'm not the only one here who's painted there calipers before. In no way do I claim to be an expert on this, just did a bunch of reading online and asked around before deciding on everything, and figured I'd share what I did.

My front calipers were looking pretty rough. So decided to paint them. After reading around, asking around, I decided to just use regular rustoleum spray paint. Here's the before pic:


For prep, I unloaded a can of brake cleaner on them to get them clean. Then took a wire wheel to them. Then sprayed more brake cleaner on them. Here's what they looked like all said and done:


Then using tape, newspaper, whatever I could find, I masked off the areas I didn't want to get paint on. Then hung them so they were ready to paint


Applied 3 coats of gloss black rustoleum, each coat within about an hour of each other.


I let the last coat dry outside and with a fan on it for about 5 hours, then applied these decals I bought off ebay.



Last thing was I applied 5 very light coats of rustoleum clear over them. Let dry overnight, reinstalled, and that's it. Looks much better. Time will tell how they hold up I suppose.

[bluntedelvis]

Looks good, now you just need different rims so they really stand out

[A//// Guy]

Regular rustoleum paint? Not even high heat? With any high speed braking, calipers really heat up. Hopefully the paint doesnt start flaking since its not high heat.

When I did my DSM calipers red, I bead blasted them and then painted them with a caliper paint kit.

Looks good though!

[niterydr]

I've had good success using the various high heat caliper paints you can get at the parts store.

[TkrPerformance]

I used reg paint on the brembos and they are still holding up fine also.

[evotuner]

looks good, had my auto body guy do my calipers....looked like they just came out of the factory

[Kracka]

Very nice, looks sexy.

[KROME]

Looks good. I'm putting in drilled rotors, ceramic pads, and getting all new calipers that I'm going to repaint with high heat paint. Might post it up later.

[2Point3TSi]

Very nice looking. Glad you choose black for the color!